This escenery renders almost imposible to have a decent timeframe for me to be able to stay for more than 24 hours at Argentina. This is bad since, besides willing to speak about my recent work and seeing old friends, I also did want to visit my father’s family on La Plata and have lot of fun at ‘La ciudad de la furia’ aka Buenos Aires, wich I happen to like a lot.

I still plan to find ways for me to be able to present my talk, since I noticed it’s been accepted!. Maybe I can run a non-RL debconf in Second Life ;)

Anyway, life isn’t this bad at all. I’m afraid I’ll be enyoing a wonderful vacation with such insuperable compannion soon. So, expect me to dissapear of the known world and to return from the sky. Looking forward to that moment! :)

In the last couple of months I’ve been working on a paper which intends to offer a (not so) new -as you might notice after reading it- approach to what the Debian Project have been managing to produce and what can be done to keep doing it better in the new escenery that we are and will be living in the upcoming years.

My work describes the way Debian have been sucessfully producing lead-users, as described by Eric Von Hippel’s Democratizing innovation book, since it’s conception and what elements were key to have done so. Previously it takes a look on how the process of innovation is really done. Then it describes the current and future world’s escenery according research and current trends, later it makes links between them and gives some ideas for us to keep fostering innovation and play a key role in the free software ecosystem.

With this work my intention is for us to understand what we are, what are we good doing, and how we can keep rocking! I want Debian to look further and be the free software development cutting edge project and atract bright people to work on what they are passionate about.

Hopefully I’ll be in Mar del Plata to discuss about this and also have some fun with you guys I haven’t seen in years!

I’d appreciate any comment or feedback to this. My intention is to turn this work into a collaborative fashion that allow us to make our project much more wonderful!

The full paper is here to download (pdf): http://stone-head.org/talks/debconf8-fostering-innovation.pdf